By Paul NicholsonMarch 25 – Scottish giants Rangers have begun the process of extricating themselves financially from the influence of investor Mike Ashley with the agreement of a £1.5 million loan agreement with Douglas Park, George Letham and George Taylor – known locally as the Three Bears.

By Alexander KrassimirovMarch 25 - Julian Indzhov (pictured), who was in the final stages of negotiation to buy Bulgarian football club CSKA Sofia, has this morning withdrawn from the acquisition process.

By David OwenMarch 24 – Low taxes and political neutrality: those are two of the reasons why, as I understand it, so many sports bodies over the years have set up headquarters amid the lakes and mountains of Switzerland.

By Jaroslaw AdamowskiMarch 24 - Bundesliga chief Christian Seifert has unveiled plans for the German top tier to introduce Monday matchdays. Seifert made his comments during a recent trip to Poland's capital Warsaw, where he met with the management of the Bundesliga's Polish counterpart, the Ekstraklasa.

By Andrew Warshaw in ViennaMarch 24 - As the sole candidate, Michel Platini was re-elected UEFA president by acclamation today and took the opportunity to defend his organisation against claims they have become enemies of FIFA and are too powerful.

By Alexander KrassimirovMarch 25 – Bulgaria's most famous football club, CSKA Sofia, is set for a new ownership! Current majority shareholder Alexander Tomov has announced that negotiations for the transfer of a majority shareholding to the construction entrepreneur Julian Indzhov (pictured left with Tomov) are in full flow.

March 24 - The Spanish public prosecutor is demanding prison sentences for Barcelona's current and previous president, Josep Bartomeu and his predecessor Sandro Rosell, and a hefty fine for the club over the alleged tax evasion case involving the now-infamous Neymar transfer.

By Andrew Warshaw in ViennaMarch 24 - UEFA president Michel Platini used his keynote address to his confederation's congress today to highlight the ills afflicting European football, with the "insidious" scourge of nationalism-fuelled fan violence at the top of the list.

March 24 - The mandate of the Normalisation Committee at the Cameroon Football Federation (FECAFOOT) has been extended for a further six months. The decision of FIFA's Executive made on March 20 gives more time for the establishment of an electoral process and new elections, with the trial of the FECAFOOT's long-term president Iya Mohammed (pictured), on grounds of alleged financial impropriety, still continuing.

By Andrew Warshaw in ViennaMarch 24 - FIFA president Sepp Blatter's eagerly awaited appearance at the UEFA Congress today was greeted with polite but hardly prolonged applause by the one confederation that opposes his re-election in May.

By Mark BaberMarch 24 - The FIFA mission to Nairobi, aimed at achieving a resolution of the crisis bedevilling Kenyan football, has by all accounts ended in triumph, with agreement between the parties on the way forward out of the crisis.

March 24 - England FA chairman Greg Dyke has called for top-flight clubs to increase the number of home-grown players in their squads in order to boost the fortunes of the national team and the effectiveness of club academy systems..

By making assets of men, football has always had a unique relationship with property. In no other walk of life can the right to employ someone be a tradable commodity worth tens of millions of pounds, dollars or euros.